NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18235, 31 October 1922, Page 8

NEW ZEALANDERS AT HOME

,1 - —■ — [FEOM OVS. OWN COIfRESPOxIIENT.] » LONDON. Sept. 22. i Mr. L. C. L. Averill (Auckland), who • is still a medical student at Edinburgh I University, haj; been appointed captain • | of the University Rugby Football Club • for the season 1922-23. Mr. H. K. Corkiil (Wellington), who 1 has graduated M.8., Cb.B., at Edinburgh, i baa been awarded the McCosh graduates' • bursary for ono year's foreign study. Major C. R. Carr, formerly of New Zea- ' land; who resigned his commission in the • R.A.F. to take part, in the Quest ex- , petition has rejoined the force.' 1 Dr. P. Marshall attended the International Geological Congress at Brussels as the delegate of the New Zealand GovernI'menfc, The national delegates were nor- ! uonally. presented to the King of the Bel- ; gians, who, in speaking to Dr. Marshall, • made special reference to the excellent '. fighting qualities of tbo New Zeland sol--1 diers, and ho made the further remark • i that they were as a bedy " so well edu- | cated." The congress w?s attended by '. leading geologists from all countries ex- ; cept Germany and Austria—these were specially excluded as were a few others, such as Turkey. Having now returned to ! London, Dr. Marshall is engaged in raI searcli work at tho Natural History ■ i Museum, South Kensington. | Lieut.-General Sir "Alexander J. Godley ; has been appointed Colonel tho Royal j Ulster Rifles, vice Field-Marshal Sir Henry j H. Wilson, Bart., deceased.